Ramones Quotes
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I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.
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Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.
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The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.
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Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great.
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I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
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I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.
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No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.
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The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.
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When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.
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Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.
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There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.
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Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.
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It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.
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All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
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I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
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We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.
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Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.
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I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.
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When Dee Dee would start singing, he would stop playing the guitar, because he couldn't sing and play at the same time.
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The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'
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Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.
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My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!
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For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
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When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.